Short syntax for try/pass
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 10:22:03 EDT 2014
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Leonardo Giordani
<giordani.leonardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> a lot of times the following pattern pops out in Python code:
>
> try:
> somecode
> except SomeException:
> pass
>
> Converting the code to a non-EAFP version, for example
>
> if len(lst) != 0:
> lst[0] = lst[0] + 1
This could be just "if lst:", but I agree, LBYL is not Python's style
(and isn't always possible anyway).
You can at least squish it up onto less lines, which might look better:
try: lst[0] += 1
except IndexError: pass
Alternatively, you can use this style:
from contextlib import suppress
with suppress(IndexError):
lst[0] += 1
ChrisA
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